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Starting with Derrida

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Starting with Derrida
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Sean Gaston
SeriesStarting with...
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:234
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreLiterary theory
Philosophy
ISBN/Barcode 9780826497864
ClassificationsDewey:194
Audience
Undergraduate

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Publication Date 22 November 2007
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

How does one start with Derrida? In this exciting and accessible book, Sean Gaston presents a new kind of introduction to Jacques Derrida, arguably the most important and influential European thinker of the last century. Derrida claimed that 'However old I am, I am on the threshold of reading Plato and Aristotle ... we need to read them again and again and again.' In Starting with Derrida, Gaston introduces all Derrida's major works and ideas by tracing Derrida's reading (and re-reading) of Plato, Aristotle and Hegel throughout his writings. Starting with Derrida argues for the importance of the relationship between philosophy, literature and history in Derrida's work and addresses all the key concepts in Derrida's thought, including his work on time and space, being and the soul, sensation and thought, history and literature, the concept and the name. The book encourages the reader to enter Derrida's varied and complex legacy through the moments in Derrida's work that are concerned with the question of origins and beginnings. By actively engaging with Derrida's ideas in this way, Gaston reveals a new and highly original reading of Derrida's work and provides a useful introduction to his entire corpus. This exciting new book is essential reading for students of philosophy and literary theory and, indeed, anyone interested in the work of this hugely important thinker.

Author Biography

Sean Gaston is Reader in English at Brunel University, UK.

Reviews

Gaston's talent lies in giving clarity to complexity and having the courage not to shy away from the palintropes of Derrida's writing... Starting With Derrida is a must read for all those interested in how Derrida reads and re-reads Heidegger, Hegel, Husserl, Plato, and Aristotle, as well as those who have a background in literature but would like more firmly to anchor their understanding of Derrida in the literature- of philosophy. -- Textual Practice 24(5)